Lord of War – Intro (The Life of a Bullet)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn1zogeyO4[/youtube]

If you haven’t yet seen this movie, please go buy it (HERE) or rent it!

This is definitely one of the best opening movie scenes ever. Not only is the camera work and computer graphics work well done, but the choice of song ( Buffalo Springfield – For What It´s Worth ) is absolutely perfect and sets the tone for the rest of the movie.

While the into is fantastic, I would NOT recommend everyone go and buy this movie, it IS entertaining, but the main message of the film is decidedly ANTI-GUN.
A rental to be sure, but unless you want to own a 127 minute commercial bout the evils of firearms, I wouldn’t buy.

I wouldn’t recommend this movie for the simple fact that it stars Nicolas Cage! Aside from that though I found it to be entertaining. However, I’ve read some articles about the real arms dealer that the movie was supposedly loosely based on, and that’s a more interesting story. The movie focuses on the arms dealing, but the real dealer was a shipping magnate, flying guns into remote parts of the world with his own fleet of surplus aircraft, and after offloading the guns would illegally ship rare goods back. I recall something about rare flowers being a particularly lucrative commodity for him to ship. Quite an interesting story. All of that aside, that is a very cool opening sequence.

The bad was that the cartridge was formed in a single stamping, against the 7 or 8 steps it usually takes, they didn’t inserted a primer, nor any type of powder that I’m aware off so yeah, it’s a nice proxy, but I liked it. I’ll see if I can rent it around here